Re: Tape writing format?

From: madden xinfinity net

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Subject: Re: Tape writing format?

Date: Fri Mar 15 19:51:51 2002

You can use the tapes, the differences lie in the way the different OS's
handle densities and start/stop points (at least on my Exabyte 8505)...
What kind of drive and media are you using?
I know the setting required for my Exabyte 8505DX on X86 Redhat, X86 Solaris,
and Sparc Solaris.
Corey
> I always like to do relative tarballs rather than absolute.
>
> cd to dir to tar then issue
> tar -cvf mytarfile .
>
> compress mytarfile
> ftp it to linux box
>
> cd to dir where to untar then issue
> tar -xvf mytarfile .
>
> HTH,
>
> Gene
>
> >>> janyne_kizer ncsu edu 03/15/02 11:41AM >>>
> backup from sun:
> TAPEDRIVE=/dev/rmt/0
> WORKDIR=/export/home/SUNarchive
> tar -cvf $TAPEDRIVE $WORKDIR/passwd
>
> restore to linux:
> TAPEDRIVE=/dev/rmt/1
> WORKDIR=/local/restore
> cd $WORKDIR
> tar -xvf $TAPEDRIVE
>
> At this point we get a file not found error.
>
> Bill Crawford wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Janyne Kizer wrote:
> >
> > > I have some Solaris servers we are migrationt to Red Hat Linux. What I
> > > was hoping to do is write the data that we want to move from the Solaris
> > > box to the new server to tape, put the tape into the Linux box and
> > > restore the data. There seems to be an incompatibility in the way the
> > > tapes are written by these to operating systems though. When we put the
> > > tape into the drive on the Linux server, the tape is accessed and we get
> > > a "file not found" error. Any pointers would be appreciated.
> >
> > Can you tell us what program you are using to create the tape, and a
> > little more detail about the error you are receiving when you try to
> > extract the data?
> >
> > Silly question: have you written somewhere after the beginning of the
> > tape and then rewound it so your Linux box is trying to read the start
> > of some data that has since been overwritten?
> >
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> Janyne Kizer
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